8:18 AM
Katy
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When I first unearthed it in the bedroom, it was full of bottles of peroxide. (Do not think too hard about that. Trust me.)

It was in rough shape but I liked the lines of the legs and thought it would be darling between two twin beds. (In the beach house in my imagination, that no one else could see, which is why everyone groaned and said "why are you touching that?")

Anyway. When I got it home and explored it, I realized that the inside of the cabinet was copper!

After some googling, it turns out that cigar humidors were made with copper commonly in the 20's to 40's.

The previous owner had some interesting crap, after all.

Not worth the $6k in demolition costs, unfortunately, but interesting all the same.

Almost done -- first coat of Ocean Breeze spray paint. Not sure if this will be the final paint color, but at least it looks clean and smells acceptable. (I was lazy again with no dropcloth and now there's a patch of my garage floor that is pale aqua. sigh )

Was this Shorty's primary residence? Copper theft is at an all-time high around here so something like that, if noticed, would have been busted to pieces.

This spray paint that you're using, how much prep has to go into the wood? I have a sewing machine table coming from my mother in law but it's an 80s oak. I want to put it in the basement between some bookshelves that are white so it's need a makeover.

Do you know what happened to old Shorty? This series of posts makes me want to clean out all my weird crap (*not as weird as his*) just in case I kick it and strangers come into my house. Or my parents.

Mom and Her Drill

I used to be a mechanical engineer and a single mom. I built a tiny beach house on Tybee Island for kicks (which I sold in 2015). Now I am married to Prince Charming and I'm renovating his gigantic wreck of a fixer-upper (aka The Lake Mansion). It's HGTV meets the zombie apocalypse - one disaster after another- plus lots of kids!